Lantern.



No. 7l7,0l2. Patented D90. 30, I902.

H. R. MENZIE &. -J. E. ROGERS.

L A N T E B N (Application filed Feb. 21, 1902.)

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UNrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY R. MENZIE AND JOHN E. ROGERS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,012, dated December30, 1902.

Application filed February 21,1902. Serial No. 95,021. (No model.)

1'0 all w/tont it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY R. MENZIE and JOHNE.ROGERs,citizens oftheUnited States, residing at Minneapolis, in the countyof Hennepin andState of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inL'anterns; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clearand exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention has for its object to provide certain improvements inlanterns; and to this end it consists of the novel devices andcombinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in theclaims.

It is a wellknown fact by all persons familiar with railroad servicethat switchmen desire a lantern having a rigidly-connected bail, whileconductors and many other persons require a lantern having a hinged orfolding bail.

One object of our invention is to provide a lantern in which the bailmay be very quickly attached to the lantern, so as to meet either one orthe other of the above requirements.

Another object of our invention is to provide a handle which may beconveniently gripped and securely held even when heavy gloves or mittensare worn.

The above objects are accomplished in our invention, the preferred formof which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, where in likecharacters indicate like parts throughout both views.

Figure l is a view in side elevation, showing a lantern embodying theseveral features of our invention; and Fig. 2 shows a portion of thelantern in side elevation, but with the lantern turned ninety degreesfrom the position indicated in Fig. 1.

The numeral 1 indicates the skeleton frame, the numeral 2 the cup, andthe numeral 3 the dome, of an ordinary lantern, such as used byconductors, switchmen, and other railway employees. Two of theframe-wires which extend from top to bottom of the lantern ondiametrically opposite sides thereof are bent upon themselves to formloops or elongated eyelets 4 and 5. The loops 1 stand above the loops 5and project slightly farther outward for a purpose which will presentlyappear.

' The numeral 6 indicates the bail-like handle of the lantern, the samebeing provided at the ends of its prongs with spring-hooks 7, which areadapted tobe sprung into engagement either with the loops or eyelets 4or 5. At its intermediate portion the bail or handle 6 is formed into acoil 8, which makes the said handle more or less flexible and at thesame time of such increased size and of such irregular form that it maybe securely held even when heavy gloves or mittens are worn. Moreover,it may be much more easily held even in the bare-hand. I

WVhen the lantern is to be used by a conductor or other person wishing apivoted or hinged hail, the hooks 7 are sprung into engagement with theloops or eyelets 4, as shown by full lines in Fig. 1. WVhen, however,the lantern is to be used by brakemen or other persons wishing a rigidhail, the hooks 7 are passed downward through the loops or eyelets 4:and are sprung into engagement with the lowerv loops or eyelets 5, asshown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. It will be noted that when the bail isattached, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the prongs thereof passvertically upward through the loops 4 and are held thereby againstswinging or pivotal movements on the loops 5. It is also evident thatthe bail may be very quickly and easily shifted from the one to theother of its two positions, and hence that the lantern maybe veryquickly converted from a lantern adapted for a conductors use into oneadapted for a brakemans use, or vice versa.

The lantern above described is of course capable of some modification asto details of construction within the scope of our invention.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

1. A lantern provided with two pairs of loops or eyelets located onepair over the other,

and a bail having hooked ends adapted to be pivotally hooked to theupper pair of loops or eyelets and adapted to be detached therefrom andpassed therethrough and hooked to the nect said bail, substantially asdescribed. tures in presence of two witnesses.

2. A lantern having frame-wires bent to form the upper and lower pairsof loops or eyelets 4: and 5, respectively, and the bail having hookedends 7, for cooperation with the Witnesses: said two pairs of loops oreyelets, substantially l ELIZABETH KELIHER, as and for the purposes setforth. F. D. MERCHANT.

lower pair of loops or eyelets, to rigidly con- I In testimony whereofWe affiX our signa-

